'Deep Springs' (2017)

'Deep Springs' (2017)From the publisher: "Sam Contiss photographs, Lawrence Rinder writes, 'capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses.' The images in Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all male liberal arts college,

text layout and image sequence

including contact sheets and Polaroids

and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh

The second half of this big volume

His public sculptures can be seen across the city centres of South Africa

fusing eastern and western aesthetics in an ethereal world populated by kimono-clad Japanese women and lost Victorian dandies

In both word and picture

European colonisation

Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water

painting and installation and deals mainly with issues of memory

Created by artist Oliver Hambsch

magic and sisterhood